Product Description

Williamson’s Macroeconomics uses a thoroughly modern approach that is consistent with the way that macroeconomic research is conducted today. The text builds macroeconomic models from a foundation of microeconomic principles. This methodology prepares students for further study in economics by allowing deeper insight into growth processes and business cycles, integrating the study of macroeconomics with microeconomics, and maintaining consistency with current methods of macroeconomic research.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #103709 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-31
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 720 pages

About the Author
Stephen Williamson is the Chester A. Phillips Professor of Financial Economics in the Department of Economics, Tippie College of Buisness, University of Iowa, and is a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.  He received a B.Sc. in Mathematics and an M.A. in Economics from Queen's University in Kingston, Canada, and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He has worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the Bank of Canada.  Professor Williamson has published scholarly articles in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Economic Theory, and the Journal of Monetary Economics, among other prestigious economics journals.

Customer Reviews

An easy going introduction to Macroeconomics
This is a very good medium level book on Macroeconomics. It presents the theory in a simple to approach way, with more than adequate deep. Is full of small illustrative examples that help you understand the theory behind the models.

The macroeconomic models are present in a simple way, so that one doesn't get to intimidated with them. Also the model are always illustrated with figures that are really helpful and help you catch the idea behind them.

It was a nice textbook to study Macroeconomics.